Oscar Wilde Quotes

I can resist everything except temptation.

Oscar Wilde

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: dramatist
  • Nationality: irish
  • Birth: October 16, 1854 - November 30, 1900

Topics

FunnyTemptationI CanEverything

We should have won the pennant that year. It was the best club I was ever on.

Jimmy Piersall

BestYearClubShouldWonEver

Since I wrote to you last we have got our chapel beautifully lighted with gas and have had our anniversary.

John Hawley

AnniversaryYouGotLastGasOur

The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.

John Mason Brown

HappinessPurposeTrue HappinessTrue

My opening words to anybody I hire are, 'I'm an extremely vulnerable person.'

Amitabh Bachchan

WordsPersonOpeningHireAnybody

I think it shows that if you have one group of people doing it, you'll get another group of people doing it.

Stephen Breyer

PeopleThinkDoingYouGroupGet

In the course of American history, great steps are taken by ordinary people, and ordinary people are not perfect.

Tommy Lee Jones

HistoryGreatPeopleNot Perfect

I'm not a theoretician about playwriting, but I have a strong sense that plays have to be pitched - the scene, the line, the word - at the exact point where the audience has just the right amount of information. It's like Occam's razor.

Tom Stoppard

StrongInformationRightLinePoint

Instead of candidates hiring people, like yours truly, to create campaign media that works on both conscious and subconscious levels to sway the voting public, what if all TV ads were, by law, only allowed to feature the candidate, with, say, the American flag as the backdrop, alone, speaking directly to the camera?

Ron Howard

AlonePeopleLawVotingAmerican

I've written songs for Shirley Bassey, Marianne Faithfull, and Linda Thompson. I sort of focus on these wonderful, aging divas. But maybe that's because I think I'm Christina Aguilera.

Rufus Wainwright

FocusAgingThinkWonderfulBecause

Maximising my wealth was never my chief thing.

Conrad Black

WealthNeverChiefThing

I'll have pasta two out of seven meals.

Cobie Smulders

PastaTwoOutMealsSeven

My food hero has to be Auguste Escoffier. And the villain? The man who's been most responsible for the death of food in my time is Ronald McDonald. He's always scared me, I think he's evil - he's a wolf in sheep's clothing. Him and the Hamburglar.

Arthur Potts Dawson

TimeFoodHeroDeathManVillain

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